Re: [PATCH] [extcon]:remove freed groups caused the panic or warning in unregister flow

[Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@samsung.com>]

On 11/04/2013 12:47 PM, Liu, Chuansheng wrote:
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Chanwoo Choi [mailto:cw00.choi@samsung.com]
>> Sent: Monday, November 04, 2013 10:37 AM
>> To: Wang, Xiaoming
>> Cc: myungjoo.ham@samsung.com; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Liu,
>> Chuansheng; Zhang, Dongxing
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH] [extcon]:remove freed groups caused the panic or warning
>> in unregister flow
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>> As you comment, my opinion has memory leak problem. My mistake.
>> But, I prefer to call 'device_unregister' at the end of extcon_dev_unregister().
>> To resolve kernel panic, I think we could use 'devm_kzalloc' instead of
>> kzalloc/kfree.
>> What is your opinion about my approach?
>>
> That sounds good.
> But in function extcon_dev_register(), the device attributes are allocated before device_register(),
> and before device_register(), the function devm_kzalloc() can not be used.
> 

We could use 'edev->dev->parent' pointer for devm_kzalloc()
but it is ambiguous method.

OK, applied this patch.

Thanks,
Chanwoo Choi